His company DevDroid makes remotely controlled machine guns, that use AI to automatically detect people and track them. Because of concerns over friendly fire, he says they don’t have an automatic shooting option.
“We can enable it, but we need to get more experience and more feedback from the ground forces in order to understand when it is safe to use this feature.”
That’s some real Dr. Strangelove logic in the wild. Can’t let robots kill people until it’s safe.
I’m suspicious of an article about advanced robotics without any description or depiction of said robots. Humanoid robots are for advertising brochures. They’re impractical for almost everything.
This is some anecdote from executives jotted down by journalists who never got near these factories.
Not saying its fake, just lazy and incurious journalism.